I see what you mean but I don't remember it looking odd in real life.
I've actually done that with a photo at a show. I have a photo of a paph taken at a show and noticed on the photo how the pouch was missing, but hadn't noticed it on the plant. In that case the first time I noticed I was looking at the shots on the back of the camera and was still at the show so went back to look... and sure enough it was missing